By the way, am I the only one that feels like Riven is some sort of "T-Rex"? Like, she is super-strong and fast, but her reach is like small, stubbly little arms.

Of course, it's been a while since I played her and I know she is pretty good regardless.

That is my main reason why I don't play her much anymore. She is incredibly strong and fun but her reach is incredibly short. If you end up against a team with semi-decent gap closers you are in for a really harsh time unless your team has great initiates.
Try playing her against a good Teemo. No chance. Keyword being good.
Teemo is the bane of my top lane in general. If I go blind pick and happen to play a champion that can't do much to him then I cry a bit inside. He is probably the only champion that if I choose a heavy melee with short range that I can't do anything about. Of course granted that he plays well.

Get teemo, seriously. One of the most underrated toppers, with great pushing, harassment and scouting potential.

Well....quoting the streamer mentioned before "...Teemo? Teemo is a pain in the ass for every champion" (talking about counterpicks)

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Originally Posted by Elial

That is my main reason why I don't play her much anymore. She is incredibly strong and fun but her reach is incredibly short. If you end up against a team with semi-decent gap closers you are in for a really harsh time unless your team has great initiates.
Try playing her against a good Teemo. No chance. Keyword being good.
Teemo is the bane of my top lane in general. If I go blind pick and happen to play a champion that can't do much to him then I cry a bit inside. He is probably the only champion that if I choose a heavy melee with short range that I can't do anything about. Of course granted that he plays well.

Yep, got really little arms but I find her really good vs other "short arms" tops.

Watch wingsofdeath stream, amazing dude that explains a everything and answers a lot of questions. Other than that, try most popular/OP tops there are right now.Shen, Yorick, Jayce, Vlad and Irelia.
They're hard to play against and if you play them you'll get to know what to do (if you hate a champ, play that champ!)
Yes, bolding stuff is fun.

Do on-hit Lulu with defensive items. It does not help when the other team is way too ahead, but everyone else can either be dueled or kited to death. And it looks and sounds so cool :d (*badoom* *thud* *thud *thud* *badoom* *tzz* *thud*...)

Do on-hit Lulu with defensive items. It does not help when the other team is way too ahead, but everyone else can either be dueled or kited to death. And it looks and sounds so cool :d (*badoom* *thud* *thud *thud* *badoom* *tzz* *thud*...)

I try to blind pick someone that isn't countered that easily.
Lately been playing a lot of Jayce. I don't know of any champion that counters him. I know Yorick and Wukong can both give hard times. So far been nothing that made me lose completely.
Irelia is a really good pick. Once you hit 6-7 you can't be touched. I don't play her often but I always have tough lanes against her.
I do enjoy Jax blind pick. he isn't the most brutal laner, but he can hold his own and even if you lose you can still come back due to him having high base damage

Teemo does get countered by champs with longer ranged harass than him, but yeah is still very dangerous to go against. Also ungankable past 6.

And that's exactly why I don't play riven blind pick. Go against Jax? or some other melee ? NP!!! Go against Teemo? GG good luck getting farm.

I've beat Teemo's as Riven easily. Play wicked aggressive, use spells during blinding dart, and one stun is pretty much GG for Teemo unless he is building tanky. Riven has a ton of mobility, use it.

Teemo has the range advantage on most top lane picks, but he isn't played often because he is fairly useless in Team fights and if any top laner gets him once, he explodes. Useless Champ IMO, and really annoying.

Just played irelia vs riven and she owned me badly...we won the game cause they suicided in our base and we got them.
I could not trade at all since the beginning.

If that happens you probably have to adjust your build order. First of all i hope you buy tabi. Then you might want to get a really early chainvest because all riven does is physical. If you think it wont throw your itembuild too far behind you might want to invest in a wardens mail since you'll often get randuins anyway. If you cant even farm under your turret your only hope is your jungler and midlane.

Well I went for tabi first, 2 times jungler ganked (even if i asked him not too if not requested or riven didnt overextend) and 2 times we died...but i really fed him, he had more then 2x my cs
Need to practice more...

Well I went for tabi first, 2 times jungler ganked (even if i asked him not too if not requested or riven didnt overextend) and 2 times we died...but i really fed him, he had more then 2x my cs
Need to practice more...

Tabi is a pretty good item in certain lanes. There has been one champion and build with him that annoys me when I play Nidalee. Garen with Tabi... Granted I keep auto attacking to stop his passive from happening but in the end he will just go back for a second and get the passive procced, needless to say he was pushing my lane hard and our jungler didn't gank once in the early game. Now I'm not one to complain about ganks but when he is at my turret for 90% of the early game, you need to gank at some point. Tabi is a counter item and great for countering a lot of pokers (except Teemo).